Queer Between the Covers

Queer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. The book demonstrates how the queer community could be brought together through shared literature and how LGBTQ people throughout modernity have used literature as an important forum for self-expression and self-actualisation when spaces and sites for queer expression were taboo. It also shows the ways in which queer texts have fought against censorship and repression and used as tools for political organisation and production. It includes first-hand accounts of seminal moments in queer history, including the birth of Hazard Press and the Defend Gay’s the Word Bookshop campaign in the 1980s.

This updated Manifold edition of Queer Between the Covers surfaces all the figures published in the book, as well as new links and resources including an updated list of the titles seized from Gay’s the Word bookshop as part of the 1984 Operation Tiger raid, drawing on work from the new online exhibition Seized Books!